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‘How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World’: An Interview with Author Elle Hardy
Australian-born journalist Elle Hardy’s exposé of global Pentecostalism, released in November by an independent UK...
Be Careful What You Wish For: The Downside of Kicking the Russian Orthodox Church Out of the World Council of Churches
Calls have grown for the Russian Orthodox Church to be expelled from the World Council...
‘Always Pray to the Father’: Mormon Leader Calls Desire for Knowledge of Heavenly Mother ‘Arrogant and Unproductive’
In 1995, in a document called the Family Proclamation, leaders of The Church of Jesus...
For Black Buddhists Struggling with Intergenerational Trauma of Slavery, Segregation, and Incarceration, Thich Nhat Hanh’s Teachings are Vital
Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Buddhist monk who joined the ancestors earlier this year, was...
Douthat, Do Tell! Some Questions for a Columnist Longing for the Good Old Days of American Religion
Sometimes it’s as necessary as a bowel movement to point out how some very smart...
‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work
This Lenten season, when the First United Church of Oak Park, Illinois gathered for Sunday...
Another Important Defection From the Russian Patriarchate Looms — The Fate of Orthodoxy in the West Hangs in the Balance
As the rhetoric of the Russian Orthodox Church grew even more shocking and dangerous this...
The Most Forgotten Queer Folks in the US are Fighting Back Against a Powerful — and Publicly Funded — Group That Discriminates With Impunity
“How do we get people to view the CCCU as an extremist organization, the same...
Evangelical Groundhog Day: The ‘Times’ Identifies the ‘Religious Fervor in the American Right’ — Around Four Decades Late
In autumn 1980, I was a senior at a Christian college in California taking a...
With Demons Held Responsible These Days for Everything from Covid to LGBTQ Rights, Take a Visual Tour of the History of Demonization
During our season of political madness, it took a lot to trigger a double-take, and...